Yeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months agoI mean there should be a mastodon.gov.uk
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The government could control social media on their own instance, sure.
I think having government accounts come from an official instance would garner more trust in the platform.
thesocavault@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People don’t trust the government all the time, they are a bunch of sneaky buggers you know.
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This is healthy attitude but irrelevant to the point
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months ago
It’s not… it’s the fediverse. I’m completely fine with them having their own instance, it’s not like they control it by any means. Hell they can be defederated. It’s a lot better than them choosing some random instance.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Then it should be only for government officials.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months ago
Correct. It would only be for government officials, so anyone federated with them would know that they are in fact, validated as the government official.
alilbee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think the distributed nature of Mastodon keeps government control from being an issue. It would be kind of cool as a space for citizens to ask for assistance or air grievances while giving the politicians an officially owned space for things like announcements.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Totally agree. The issues with “government-controlled social media” are a non-issue in a federated environment.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 months ago
I don't want a private company controlling government email servers, why would I want them to control government social media platforms?
electricprism@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
What you don’t like pot holes in your roads? XD We can easily host our own server where the database password is already 123456
CMLVI@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s…actually a cool AF idea/inplementation of Fediverse shit. A practical use as well, as they’d control who was on the instance and would be a sorta pseudo-verification process for any accounts on it’s own.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months ago
I think it’s perfect for governments. You can subscribe anywhere, you know it’s legit, and that’s a much better way to do notifications than twitter.
CMLVI@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah I’m not entirely well-versed in the implications of what that would allow, but it’s another use-case that would be cool to see!